Buy prices, card by card
Your rates decide what a card is worth in general. This screen is where you look at what that actually pays for a particular card, and overrule it where you disagree.
Whether you buy a set at all, language by language, is not here: it is switched on Catalogue ▸ Buy & sell config, which the line under the heading links to. A set switched off there never shows a price here.
Reading a row
| Column | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Market | What an NM copy is worth, in your currency, with where that figure came from underneath: eBay sold or price guide. Everything else is worked out from this. |
| Pays now | What you would hand over today — or the reason you would not, such as Below your value limits or No rate set. |
| Target / Stock / Want | How many you will hold, how many you have, and the difference. |
| Incoming | Copies already on their way in on submitted lists, so you do not buy the same card twice over. |
| Remaining buys | Want less incoming. When this hits zero the card stops being offered. |
| Your cash / credit | Your own figure for this card, as a % of market or a fixed price. Leave blank to follow your rates. |
| Never buy card | Refuse it outright, in every condition. |
Where the market price comes from
Every rate is a percentage of a market price, and that price is the card's eBay sold price for the condition being sold, over recent sales. With no sold price for that exact condition it is the NM sold price stepped down by your condition ladder (LP 70% of NM unless you have changed it under ⚙ Market pricing on Catalogue ▸ Buy & sell config). With no sold prices at all it falls back to the price guide (Cardmarket's daily prices for most games), stepped down the same way. A slab uses the sold price for its grader and grade, and the card's raw price when there is none.
Because the market already reflects the condition, your rate for LP is a share of an LP price, not of an NM one. Worked example: NM sells for £10 and LP for £7; at LP 40% you offer £2.80.
A card in another language uses that language's own sold prices when there are any, and otherwise its share of the English figure.
The seller's name and address
A customer can submit a sell list whatever it is worth, with or without an address on their account. When you pay the list out, the name and address on their account go on the numbered purchase invoice for it (Reports ▸ Stock book). A list paid out to an account with no address is marked as having no purchase record: under the margin scheme HMRC expects the seller's name and address on every purchase invoice you make out yourself, at any price, so ask the customer to add theirs if you can.
Languages
A card printed in more than one language you sell gets a language selector on its row. Switching it repaints that row with the figures for that language — its market price, its target, its stock — and anything you type is saved against that language alone. The Language box at the top of the screen sets which one every row opens on.
Only English has a catalogue price. Every other language is a share of it, which you set on Catalogue ▸ Buy & sell config. Without that share there is no sum to do, and the row will say so rather than quote you an English price for a foreign card.
One rarity at a time
The Rarity box in the filter bar lists the rarities printed in the game, or the set if you have chosen one. Pick one and the table shows only those cards, and the rates line reads Paying for Rare Holo in Celebrations. All rarities goes back to every card.
With a rarity chosen, ⚙ Change rates sets what you pay for that rarity in this set, or across the whole game if no set is chosen. A rarity's rates beat the general rates of any set or game, so "every Rare Holo in Pokémon pays 60%" holds even in a set with rates of its own. Each language can have its own ladder for the rarity too; leave its rows empty and it follows the rarity's main ladder. Value limits are not set per rarity: choose All rarities to change them. Remove the rates for the rarity clears that rarity alone and its cards go back to the set or game rates.
Change rates
The ⚙ Change rates button sets what this game or set pays, without leaving the screen. Remove these rates clears the general rates and limits of the game or set, and keeps any rarity rates set there. Each non-English language can have a ladder of its own underneath the main one — leave a row empty and that language follows the rates above it, applied to its own market price.
Value limits sit below the ladders and can also differ per language: a smaller floor for a language you find harder to shift, or a lower target because you want fewer of them.
Which figure wins
Most specific first, and it is worth knowing the order:
- A price you typed on this card
- A rate for this card's rarity in its language, then for its rarity in any language, looking at this set, then this game, then your default
- The rates for this set, then this game, then your default; within each, a rule for the card's type, then its language, then the general rate
Other grades opens the rest of the conditions for a card when you want to price them apart, rather than letting them follow the ladder.